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Updated: June 12, 2025
They described the most effective "scratching" methods for the elimination of "gray-backs," "red-stripes," "cooties," "crawlies" any name you like to give those hosts of insect enemies that infest every trench. Now, "going in" isn't so easy as it sounds. We don't advance in companies four deep. We don't have bands.
Before long the enemy was on the run again, our troops pouring volley after volley into them as they fled over stone fences, hedges, around farm houses, trying in every conceivable way to shun the bullets of the "dreaded gray-backs." I looked in the rear. What a sight!
"Look at the gray-backs chivying her," said he. "Aren't the passengers just sorry for themselves now? I've listened to those tales of desperate adventure by the hour together. Passengers by Dover-Calais packets are great at 'em." All this while we were closing up.
First ther durned gray-backs they come snoopin' up yere, an' run off all my horgs; then ther blame blue-bellies come 'long an' cut down every lick o' my corn fodder, so thet I'll be cussed if I ain't 'bout ready ter fight either side. Anyhow I ain't did no fightin' yit worth talkin' 'bout, fer Mariar is pow'ful feared I'd git hurt." Maria regarded him scornfully. "Hiding out, I suppose?"
About him was an invisible choir of voices, the low twittering of timid little gray-backs, the song of hidden warblers, the scolding of distant jays. Big-eyed moose-birds stared at him as he passed, fluttering so close to his face that they almost touched his shoulders in their foolish inquisitiveness. A porcupine crashed within a dozen feet of his trail.
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